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June 2017 01: bowler-figure hooks
- Good for holding a compound bow and a metal detector or perhaps other survivalist gear.
02: inside Sylvia's mouth
- A life-saving explanation for all the blood. And a performance of the Mentalist.
03: two different podcasts joined together
- Dog sitting, digging a hole around tree of heaven roots and meeting a co-worker for the first time outside of a computer.
04: hoarding affliction so gratuitously satisfied
- A co-worker downsizing before couch-surfing the country gives me a bunch of old computer equipment.
05: forest as Schrödingers's Box
- Another encounter between bears and dogs after a successful washing machine repair.
06: Gretchen's bad back and poison ivy rash
- I run errands to get her medication and reading material.
07: like coffee for snakes
- The sun finally comes out again.
08: at least simulate concern
- James Comey testifies before the Senate.
09: thrift store gold
- After repeatedly striking out, I find something worth getting at the Tibetan Center thrift store.
10: Cockroach for Midge
- A new open-source wireless router outside the greenhouse.
11: peewees not phoebes
- Eva and Sandor have different flycatchers than we do.
12: dipshit woodpecker hole
- How a circular hole screwed-up my brand new message teeshirt.
13: without any warnings or complaints
- Listening to Army recruits spoil plot points from the movie Get Out while waiting for our plane to Columbia to take off.
14: a microcosm of what I've been saying
- Working all day on a project with ground rules I don't agree with proves a point.
15: eating cheese with my vegan colleagues
- A vegan burrito I'd ordered turns out to have cheese, but I quietly eat it instead of rasing a fuss.
16: not the old guy in da club
- At the last day of the IT retreat in Columbia, SC.
17: no sense that GPS is turned off in airplane mode
- That's the reason I don't put my phone in airplane mode when on a plane.
18: tired and with hands that needed scrubbing
- Revisiting my the hack I'd made to an oxygen sensor.
19: bundling my trips
- Yet another router in the pod above the greenhouse after the weeks-old one suffers an Otto-Warmbier-like fate. Also: why one shouldn't necessarily feel the need to say something to your host every time you see him or her, especially if you've already seen him or her today.
20: deplorable to replace a deplorable
- Milquetoast suburban Atlantans really want those tax cuts I guess.
21: Ramona falls from a tree
- How did she get up there? Riding a bear!
22: make comedy great again
- Gretchen attends a Bob Stanhope show in West Nyack.
23: Sylvia's last trip to the vet
- After over 12 years, it was Sylvia's time to go.
24: fuck with the algorithm
- How a wacky new friend ended up with her gorgeous wife.
25: outsourced basement cleaning jihad
- Our houseguest helps whip our house into shape before the arrival of other houseguests.
26: intuitions about the material world
- My hands find the right pressure points on an automotive CD player.
27: expected human behavior
- Neville the Dog is amazed that human behavior extends to singing and dancing.
28: communicate with severed heads after a guillotining
- The new headless IT and how it will function.
29: Janet, not Diane
- Securing a replacement for Sylvia, though she doesn't come home yet. Also, a first full day under the new remote-workplace regime.
30: feel free to go nuts if that's your vision
- A second day under the new leaderless IT regime.
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